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Am Yisrael Chai
Rescuer's of the Holocaust Program
April 29, 2012
Am Yisrael Chai! is a community wide program that focuses on Holocaust awareness and education with an emphasis on survival and success. We will hold our annual Am Yisrael Chai event the evening of April 29th, 2012 with a focus on rescuer's of the Holocaust.
Rescuers are those who, at great personal risk, actively helped members of persecuted groups, primarily Jews, during the Holocaust in defiance of Third Reich policy. They were ordinary people who became extraordinary people because they acted in accordance with their own belief systems while living in an immoral society. Thousands survived the Holocaust because of the daring acts and courage of these rescuers. Although in total their number is statistically small, rescuers were all colossal people.
Rescuers were peasants and nannies, aristocrats and clergy, bakers and doctors, social workers and storekeepers, school children and police officers, diplomats and grandmothers. Rescuers were Jews and Non Jews. They were from many countries - the Netherlands, the Ukraine, Poland, Germany, France, Hungary, Denmark, Italy, Greece, Belgium and other nations. Rescuers viewed Jews and other victims not as the enemy, but as human beings. Rescuers held the conviction that what one person did could make a difference.
"Whoever saves a single life
is as if one saves the entire world."
Talmud
For more information, please contact us at amyisraelchaiatlanta@gmail.com
No charge for the program,
but please RSVP at 404-843-2464 x 104 or E-mail us
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